Re: [pacman-dev] #10530: checksum verification does not work on BSD

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't really like this solution, but it's the only portable solution I could think of. Instead of using md5sum, sha1sum, etc from GNU coreutils, openssl is used. Openssl has the limitation that it does not support the other sha* algorithms, so they had to be removed from makepkg. I don't like having to remove features in order to make something more portable.

The patch has been tested on Mac OSX (10.5) and Archlinux.

References http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10530

Let me ask the same question than on the bug tracker, just in case : Why doesn't openssl support the other sha* algo, and are there any plans for a future support?